Television: Battle of the Bones

The celebrated gaming booths of NBC's Twenty One last week rocked under
a rhubarb that had even the head croupiers puzzled. Playing their sixth
tie game in four weeks, at a husky $3,500 a point, Greenwich Village
Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank
Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on
European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five
groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime
pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out
by M.C. Jack Barry,...